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  1. this was stuck to the vent of our Rhode Island Red. it was in one piece until we pulled it off. the white portion contained a clear liquid. She has been trying to lay the past 3 days, but hasn't. Today is she lethargic and not eating. She is always the most active and friendly chick. It is hot in Arizona, and our girls are molting and not laying much, but this is unusual behavior for her. When it is really hot, they spend the afternoon in their air conditioned hen house. We have spent $750 at the avian vet on two of our girls and promised ourselves no more. But of course she is our favorite chick. She also squirts a white milky poo. Help, what is going on????

    this was stuck to the vent of our Rhode Island Red. it was in one piece until we pulled it off. the white portion contained a clear liquid. She has been trying to lay the past 3 days, but hasn't. Today is she lethargic and not eating. She is always the most active and friendly chick. It is hot in Arizona, and our girls are molting and not laying much, but this is unusual behavior for her. When it is really hot, they spend the afternoon in their air conditioned hen house. We have spent $750 at the avian vet on two of our girls and promised ourselves no more. But of course she is our favorite chick. She also squirts a white milky poo. Help, what is going on????

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    Comment by '5th chick' in article 'Bumblefoot How To Treat Your Chickens With Surgery Graphic Pics'

    We have for chicks, and three of them have Bumble foot. Have done one foot on our Brown Leghorn. Removed the cheesey gunk from the bottom of foot, and a couple of weeks later, she got a large bump with a scab on the top of the same foot. The surgery we did on that looked "text book". Big black...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Hi, I am new to this forum and since I live in Tempe, I feel that chicken owners in AZ have different issues than elsewhere in the country, especially our heat. for the past week my year old Dominique has been acting listless and sleeping a lot. She isn't eating, drinking or very active at...
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    Review by '' on item 'Dominique'

    Our Dominique is close to a year old. She was constantly handled and loved to sit in our laps for love and petting. she would lightly peck at our pant leg to get us to pick her up, and she would peck at the back door to get us to let her inside. One day in January, she was sitting with her...
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    Review by '' on item 'Sussex'

    Coco seemed to be very independent and great forager from day one. We didn't give her enough attention, so be sure to give your Sussex lots of tactile stimulation from day one. She is the biggest bird but at the bottom of the four chick pecking order. I would equate her to the fat girl being...
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    Chicken lethargic, barely standing/moving, seemingly labored breathing and slightly blue comb...

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    Chicken lethargic, barely standing/moving, seemingly labored breathing and slightly blue comb...

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    Chicken lethargic, barely standing/moving, seemingly labored breathing and slightly blue comb...

    Our Speckled Sussex is acting the same way. Lethargic, sleeping and lying down a lot. She is still eating and drinking a little. There is something wrong with her left eye, as she is keeping it closed most of the time. Perhaps another chick pecked her eye. She is the sweetest, but lowest in...
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    Laying Egg with no shell

    Thank goodness I can come to this website for support. My husband said that raising chickens would be sooo easy. My Dominique turned bitchy, and bitey. Now two eggs were pecked this week. Just an hour ago my big Speckled Sussex laid a rubber egg. I picked her up because she was acting...
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    What happened to my sweet Dominique?

    What the heck happened to my sweet,loving, calm 8 month old Dominique? One day she started pecking at our pants...which we thought was for attention, so we would pick her up and she would let us love and pet her for a long time. Then one day she started agressively pecking us all over, and kept...
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    My chicken is pecking me!

    Our Dominique, Tinker Bell is still pecking us but mainly on the legs in order to get attention. My husband is working on the coop today and she kept pecking his jean, but once very hard, so that was it. She is now in a "time out" in the chicken yard and is pacing wanting out. We have begun...
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    My chicken is pecking me!

    My favorite chicken is my Dominque. She is 8 months old, very docile and loving, but has recently stated pecking at my legs if I am not paying attention to her. I think she wants my attention, so I pick her up for awhile and pet her like a dog. She sits quietly, and seems to love the...
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